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The Labeling Trick Only the FDA Could Pull Off
By LINDA and BILL BONVIE
Ready or not, Halloween is coming around again.
For many, it’s a fun holiday that opens the magic portal to the holiday season. But for others, not so much!
In the UK a recent poll found that 45 percent of

FDA bans seven cancer-causing food additives. How many more are out there?
After a 30-year hiatus the Delaney Clause makes a return appearance
By LINDA BONVIE
Late last week the FDA announced the ban of seven food additives known to cause cancer.
These consist of a group of tongue-twisting chemicals such as synthetically derived

A Lesson from the Past Reminds Us How the Facts Are What Really Matter
By LINDA and BILL BONVIE
It was a bit like a case of déjà vu, only with a new dimension.
That was our reaction upon hearing the news that a Terminix employee had been indicted for illegally applying the

‘Read Your Labels Day’ – Now More Important Than Ever!
By LINDA BONVIE and BILL BONVIE
What makes this April 11, Citizens for Health’s sixth annual Read Your Labels Day, perhaps the most important one yet?
Two developments, actually. One is a USDA decision to override the National Organics Standards Board’s (NOSB) vote

Read Your Labels Day
Six years ago, Citizens for Health designated April 11 as “Read Your Labels Day,” #RYLD, an event to shine a spotlight on the importance of reading the most vital part of a food package – not the “Nutrition Facts” label, not the advertising copy on the front,

Is a New Drug Strategy Really What We Need to Prevent Alzheimer’s?
By LINDA BONVIE and BILL BONVIE
So what’s up with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? An agency that has been derelict in its duties of protecting the public for quite some time now appears to have gone completely off

Happy New Year to all of our supporters, friends, allies and readers.
Now that the wrapping paper is gone and noisemakers are stowed, we wanted to send this very brief note looking back at (and forward to) a few issues relating to natural products, health and the environment.
First, there is general

The good news is that there may well be a relatively simple way for many individuals now caught up in the ongoing nationwide opioid crisis to pull themselves out of it. And that’s no small thing, considering that that this man-made catastrophe has killed an estimated 20,000 Americans from overdoses in 2016 alone. The bad news is that the federal government is trying its best to make such apparent salvation illegal.

Although this is coveted as a wonderful bill that is needed in the US so that drugs and medical devices can be fast tracked, if you read the nearly 1000 pages it is clear this is dangerous bill that is has the best interests of the Pharmaceutical industry at heart, NOT its consumers.

The following is reprinted with the permission of McClatchyDC
Dental group defends mercury fillings amid mounting evidence of risks
By Greg Gordon
ggordon@mcclatchydc.com
WASHINGTON - For decades, the American Dental Association has resolutely defended the safety of mercury fillings in the teeth of more than 100 million Americans, even muzzling dentists who dared to